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Saturday, April 16, 2011

I have been going to the best art class ever. It's called "Modern Art for Homeschoolers" and it is at the Painted Cloud studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I love the teachers Samara and Brendan! Each week we talk about a modern artist and then we do art inspired by that artist.

In first grade, I read (with my mum) the series of kids' history books called The Story of the World (there are four volumes which go from Ancient times right up to the Modern Age). I loved them and learned lots and lots about Ancient Egypt and Greece and the Middle Ages, about the fire of London and Shakespeare and the World Wars and all kinds of things.

At the beginning of this year we started our history studies at the beginning again. But this time we're going into more detail and using this book called The Humanistic Tradition.

We are reading lots of plays (like Antigone and Oedipus), stories (like The Odyssey and Gilgamesh), watching lots of movies and documentaries, and going on tours at the Metropolitan Museum. We've also made a timeline!

Here is our reading list and my Lego history sculptures!

Paleolithic and Neolithic

Reading list:The Humanistic Tradition – Introduction and the Birth of CivilizationThe Story of the World, Volume 1 – Chapter 1